π
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Translingual
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Possibly β¨πβ© fire plus β¨πβ© crucible
Symbol
[edit]π
- (alchemy, archaic) sulphur/sulfur, brimstone
- (astronomy, obsolete) 19th-century typographic variant of β¨β΄β©, the symbol for asteroid (2) Pallas
- (astrology) cardinal zodiacal modality
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[edit]English
[edit]Noun
[edit]π (plural πrs)
- (alchemy) Abbreviation of sulphur.
- c. 1653-1656, George Starkey, translated by William R. Newman, Lawrence M. Principe, Alchemical Laboratory Notebooks and Correspondence, University of Chicago Press, published 2004, page 250:
- Edward he sayth that the Philosophers doe write of two πrs & to them two βΏes joyned, & these are Red most pure & white.
Latin
[edit]Noun
[edit]π n sg (genitive πis); third declension
- (alchemy) Abbreviation of sulphur.
- c. 1653-1656, George Starkey, translated by William R. Newman, Lawrence M. Principe, Alchemical Laboratory Notebooks and Correspondence, University of Chicago Press, published 2004, page 204:
- Nota quoque, quod βΏ ex π΅ non fit sine sequestratione πis Combustibilis Copiosi, Ergo & hoc ad Solificationem & Lunificationem sequestrari convenit.
- Note also that mercury is not made from regulus without the separation of copious combustible sulfur; therefore, it is fitting for solifaction and lunifaction for this sulfur to be removed.
- 1701, Johann Christoph Sommerhoff, Lexicon pharmaceutico-chymicum latino-germanicum & germanico-latinum [Pharmaceutico-Chemical Lexicon, Latin–German and German–Latin], page 69:
Declension
[edit]Third-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem).
singular | plural | |
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nominative | π | πa |
genitive | πis | πum |
dative | πΔ« | πibus |
accusative | π | πa |
ablative | πe | πibus |
vocative | π | πa |
Third-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem).
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